Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 243, 10 July 1911 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY JULY 10, 1911.

MAYOR'S CABINET TALKS ABOUT ICE

III CITY Further Complaint by Public Over Alleged Shortages Will Lead Mayor Zimmerman to Take Action. (Continued from rage One.) sumes an average of 65 tons a day, according to B. B. Johnson, of the Rettig and Johnson company, but the demand in the extremely hot weather U something over this figure. With a continuation of the hot weather, bringing with it the necessary shipment of imported ice, the prices on Classes 1 and 2, which are the large hotels, butchers and restaurants respectively, which are now paying 15 and 17 cents rer hundred for ice, will be raised 2Vfc cents per hundred. If the contractots fail to deliver the Ice there will be no Increase of local prices, but the consumers will bo limited to a certain amount per day. By using economy in ice now, Mr. Johneon says the public will take a step toward preventing a local ice famine. NOISE OF THUNDER. tue to Heating of Gases Along tho Lino of Electrio Discharge. To rrofi-ssor Trowbridge we owe an x peri men t to explain the noise of thunder. It lias usually been thought that the noise is cn uswl by the clos;ing up of the vacuum created by the .jmssnge tf lightning, the air rushing 'In from all sides with a clap, but tho intensity of the noise Is rather disproportionate, and It Is now supposed that the thunder is due to the intense Heating of the gases, especially the gas of water vnpor along the line of I the electric discharge, and the consequent conversion of suspended moisture Into steam at enormous pressure. ' In this way the crackle with which a peal of thunder sometimes begins f might be regarded as the sound of team explosions on a small scale, caused by Inductive discharges before the main flash. The rumble would be Ithe overlapping steam explosions, and the final clap, which soundest loudest, ; would be the steam explosion nearest 'to the auditor. In the case of rumbling thunder the lightning Is passing 'from cloud to cloud. When the flash passes from the earth to the clouds the clap Is loudest at the beginning. Professor Trowbridge gave substance to these suppositions by causing electric flashes to pass from point to point through terminals clothed In soaked cotton wool, and he succeeded In magnifying the crack of the electric spark to a terrifying extent. London Graphic. THE BIG OIPPER. It l tho Hour Hand of tho Woodman's Celestial Clock. " The pole star Is really the most important of the stars In our sky. It narks the north at all times. It alone Is fixed In the heavens. All the other tars seem to swing around it once In twenty-four hours. But the pole star of Polaris Is not a Jrery bright one, and It would be hard fto Identify but for the help of the so called pointers In the "Big Dipper," or 'Great Bear." The outer rim of the ifllpper points nearly to Tolarls at a distance equal to three times the space that separates the two stars of the 'dipper's outer side. Various Indians called the pole star the "Ilome Star" and the "Star That Never Moves." and the dipper they call the "Broken Back." TTbe "Great Bear" Is also to be remembered as the pointers for another reason. It Is the hour hand of the woodman's clock. It goes once around the north star In about twenty-four hours, 'the reverse way of the hands of a rwatch that Is, It goes the same way las the sun and for the same reason that It Is the earth that is going and leaving them behind. Country Life In America. A Blow Arrested. An organist who on the eve of a festival was taken suddenly ill secured a deputy to take his place. The deputy, on the authority of St. James' Budget, was a gentleman who played very full organ, playing full chords where his principal played only single notes, and consequently using a much larger quantity of wind. When about three parts through with the "flallelujab Chorus" the wind suddenly gave out. Going round to the back of the organ to ascertain the reason, the deputy found the blower in the act of putting on his coat preparatory to going home. "What do you mean by such behavior?" the deputy 'angrily expostulated. "Look here, sir," the blower returned with warmth. "If you think I don't know 'or many puffs it takes to blow the 'Allelujab Chorus' you make a big mistake!" Helped the Thief. "A simple, honest Scotch farmer had taken a sack of meal to dispose of in Aberdeen castle market." says Mrs. Mayo in her "Recollections of Fifty Years." "It was in the days when people were hanged for any petty theft, and an execution was in progress, the culprit being n sheep stealer. The worthy countryman stood aghast when a strauger bustled up trlth the question: "'What's a -do? "4A banging.' said the other, awed. tor stealing a sheep.' "'Eh. what won't folks risk fot irearr cried the stranger. 'Will ye Just give me a hand up with this ackr "The farmer promptly complied. It was only afterward that be discovered be bad helped a thief to make off with tho sack of meal he had brought oelir!

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A A CHURCH PULPIT Insists on Preaching and the Congregation Was Left Gasping. Philadelphia, Pa., July 10. Assert ing 6he was inspired, Mrs. Mary Price, 30 years old, appeared in the center aisle of the fashionable Holy Trinity church, Rittenhouse square, during the services Sunday and began to preach. She was robed in a clock of white and gold with a headdress improvised from a handkerchief. The Rev. Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins, the rector was in the midst of a discourse when the woman appeared like an apparition. So startled was the large conKrrgation that no one moved for several minutes. In a highly pitched voice the woman began to talk of lost sheep. She said she had been sent to find the lost sheep and to denounce the wolves masquerading in sheep's clothing. Up the aisle the woman stalked, her flowing gown and peculiar headgear adding to the startling picture. As she reached the first step loading to the altar the congregation gave another gasp of astonishment, for when she lifted the robe it was seen that her feet were clad in golden colored slippers. Claims Policeman as Lost Sheep. "I have been sent and will speak," she cried. "The lost sheep must be found." As the woman continued her fiery harangue from the pulpit one of the ushers went for a policeman. When (Patrolman Bunting arrived he went to her and told her she must leave the church." "Behold. I have found my sheep," cried the woman, throwing her arms around the policeman's neck. Her whole manner changed in an instant, and she began to talk in a rambling way to Bunting, who, blushing, seized the opportunity to persuade her to leave the church. As she went down the isle the woman reached in one of the pews and gathered up the shoes that she had discarded for her golden slippers. She left the congregation gasping. The ushers say they saw the woman enter the church shortly before the services began, but paid little heed to her. Although one of the most fashionable churches in the country, all strangers are welcomed at Holy Trinity. The woman was escorted to a pew. and that was the last any one saw of her until her dramatic outburst. When taken to the Fifteenth and Locust streets police station she gave her name and address. Dr. Gourney Williams at first was inclined to believe the woman was suffering from mental derangement, due to heat, but an investigation by the police showed that her "mission." as she described it, had been carefully planned. She registered at the Keystone a few weeks ago, and said she had just arrived from England. Costume Much Bespangled. Mrs. Price's costume, which was an elaborate affair, had been liberally bespangled. When she entered the church the cloak was concealed. She must have drawn it on some time during the service or the ushers would have noticed it. Dr. Williams sent the woman to the Philadelphia hospital, where an investigation will be made as to her mental condition.

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INVADES

During the Fierce Hot Wave

HOST OF EDUCATORS Attend Opening of Annual Convention Today. (National News Association) San Francisco, Cal., July 10. The forty-ninth annual convention of the National Education Association began work in earnest today. The first of the general sessions was held this afternoon in the Greek Theater of the University of California. It is estimated that more than 25,000 persons have come to San Francisco to attend the convention. Several thousand more are expected, and it is believed that the convention will be one of the largest gatherings of its kind ever held on the Pacific coast. The Greek Theater at the university has a seating capacity of several thousand, but had the ampitheater been three times as large it would not have accommodated the crowd today. Ad dresses of welcome were made by Gov ernor Johnson of California, Mayor Mc Carthy of San Francisco, and Presdont Ide Wheeler of the University of California. Dr. Elmer E. Brown, late United States Commissioner of Education, responded for the visitors. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago, president of the association was introduced to the convention and received an enthusiastic greeting. Davis Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford Junior University, spoke on the relation of education to temperance, and the initial session came to a close with an address on "The Cause of Education" delivered by Helen Marsh Wixson, State superintendent of public instruction of Colorado. FAMOUS STAR GROUP. The Constellation Orion In Legend and Literature. The constellation Orion is mentioned In the literature of all ages. In Egypt it represented Horns, the young or rising sun, in a boat surmounted by stars, closely followed by Sirius. which was shown as a cow. It has also been found sculptured on the walls of Thebes 5,000 years ago. And on the men of that early time it shone down from the same position and with the same brightness as it does on us today, a striking example of the unchangeablencss of the heavens. From the days of the early nindus to the present the constellation has for some reason borne always a stormy character. Allusions to its direful influence are found everywhere among the elarlo writers. Thus Milton wrote: When with fierce winds Orion arrived Hath vexed the Ked sea coast. The loss of the Roman squadron In the first Punic war was ascribed to the fleets having sailed just ufter the rising of Orion. The group has also been employed as a calendar sign, its morning rising: indicating the beginning of summer, its midnigh? rising the season of grape gathering and its erly evening rising the arrival of winter, with its attendant storms, in recent tims the group has always represented a great hunter or warrior. Its present title came into Greek astronomy from the Euphrates and originally signified the light of heaven. Wanted Two experienced workmen in the asembling room. Call by telephone or write Rude Mfg. Co. 10-lt New York's sick list averages 133.000 names each day, or one person in every thirty-five, and within a year 1.530.000 cases of illness occur within the city limits.

MISS HELEN TAFT WILL BE HOSTESS Daughter of the President Presides Over the Summer White House.

(National News Association) Beverly, Mass., July 10. President Taft's family has been installed at Parramatta for a week now, and preparations are being made for some formal entertaining. Mrs. Taft will spend the next few weeks in semi-seclusion, owing to her recent poor health, and Miss Helen Taft is announced as the principal entertainer and hostess for the present season. Her opening affair is looked forward to with no little interest by the leading members of the society set. It probably will be held on the Mayflower. Nothing has been left undone about j Parramatta. The velvety lawns and blooming gardens about the estate are at their prettiest. The house is truly a white house in color, while the interior is a mahogany palace, nearly all of the furnishings being of that wood. The most notable change made in the plans of the twenty-two room cottage was the building of a suite of offices for the president's use. These can now be reached through an entrance made on the woods side of the house. President's Private Office. President Taft's private office is light and airy. It commands a view of both country and seashore for several miles around. The decorations are of the Louis XV period, while the walls are covered with soft gray paper with a crown design. There is also a large fireplace. The president's desk is that used at the Burgess point cottage and was presented to him by Mrs. Robert D. Evans. It is of mahogany, .with chair to match. The office furnishings are of mahogany and willow. The reception room is papered with a ; rich red burlap and many rare pictures are hung on the walls. The second floor contains the chambers. At the front of the cottage is the writing and rest room, which will be used by Mrs. Taft. This room commands a view of the country on three sides of the house. Mrs. Taft's boudoir leads from this room. The bed is a mahotranv four nn?tpr nf tio rlrtnial type. The dresser and chiffonier are also in mahogany. The president's chamber is also furnished in mahogany. There are two more fine chambers on the opposite side of the hall. Interest in Coming Wedding. Considerable interest centers in the coming wedding of Maj. Archibald Butt, the president's aid. and Mrs. Lucy Hayes Herron Laughlin. sister of Mrs. Taft. It is believed that the ceremony will be performed here some time in August. Mrs. Laughlin was the wife of Thorn as K. Laughlin of Pittsburg, who shot himself in that city, March 11, 1910. Ill health was assigned as the cause for the deed. He had Just returned from Europe and Mrs. Laughlin was in Washington. Mrs. Laughlin is an athlete, an excellent tennis player, and is fond of outdoor sports. Called to the bar in 1S33, William George Hake, who recently celebrated his hundredth birthday, is the only English barrister who ever reached .his century.

DROUGHT BALKING A KANSAS RECORD

Lack of Rain Spoils Chances for an Immense Crop This Year. Topeka, Kan., July 10. The drought last fall and this spring cheated Kan sas out of a record for the greatest wheat yield any state ever had. which would have exceeded its own record by millions of bushels and set a mark which no other state probably could approach for years. Incidentally the Kansas State Agricultural college has made good on its promise to provide Kansas farmers with a wheat that literally will "fill the bread hasket of the world." Estimates made by the Kansas Grain Dealers' association are that close to 2.000.000 acres of wheat were plowed tip in Kansas last spring, because not enough moisture had fallen to causa the seed to germinate. This left less than i. 000,000 acres, probably 1,000,000 acres of which was badly injured by drought, but in which enough seed had germinated to make it unprofitable to plow it up. Something less than 3.000,000 acres was left in fairly good condition and upon tnat in thousands of instances there have been yields that are phenomenal for Kansas. Thirty to Forty Bushels to Acre. The average yield for Kansas in previous years has been thirteen bushels to the acre. This year thousands of farmers have reported fields of from 100 to 300 acres, running all the way from thirty to forty bushels to the acre and in hundreds of cases the wheat has thrashed out forty bushels. A few large fields have run even above that, notably in Atchison county, where one farmer threshed out a field which averaged fifty-one and one-half bushels. In the same ratio Kansas in an average year would turn out close to 120,000,000 bushels, which is onethird more wheat than the state has produced in its greatest crop years, when the average ran up to fifteen or sixteen bushels to the acre. As it is, with the small acreage, the Kansas yield is now estimated at close to 70,000,000 bushels, which will make an average on the acreage not affected by drought exceed twenty bushels to the acre. A great deal of the credit for the large yields this year undoubtedly is due to improved strains of wheat the Kansas State Agricultural college has been breeding up for the farmers and to the improved methods of planting which the college has been preaching for several years from its seed trains. What New Wheat Does. The variety of wheat now being furnished to the farmers made an average yield of sixty bushels an acre on the college farm under Kansas farm condi POST CARD COUPON Clip this coupon and bring it to one of the Quigley Drug Stores, with 10 cents and receive one set of 25 colored view Post Cards of Richmond. By mail 3c extra for postage.

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BIG MID -SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE CLOSES SAT. NIGHT JULY 15th We have Special Bargains that go on sale the balance of this week.

One lot of ladies to 5 choice at

Every pair of Low Shoes and Slippers at 10 to 50 per cent discount. Don't fail to come this week. Some of the best bargains of the sale are on sale this week. Sale Closes Saturday Might, July 15th NEFF Ql NUSBAUiva 7th and Main St.

tions and on a test made by a northeast Kansas farmer under average conditions on his farm ran sixty-five bushels to the acre. Thousands of bushels of this wheat were distributed in Kansas last fall, and on hundreds of farms the greatly increased yield can be traced directly to its use for seed and the better methods of cultivation taught by the college. It is the hope of the college within the next few years to supply every farmer in Kansas with the new wheat, and it is the aim in doing so to increase the average yield of Kansas to thirty bushels an acre.

Willing to Be Reasonable. "Do you believe in long engagements?" he asked after she had consented to be his. Yes. dearest." she replied. "I have always thought it was such a mistake for two people to rush into matrimony before they learned to really know each other." "Well, about how long would you wish the engagement to be?" "Let me see: Would you think it was too long if we didn't get married until a week from next Thursday?" Chicago Itecord-lierald. Fellow Worms, Before Longfellow bought the house in Cambrid-re so associated with his memory it was owned and occupied by old Mrs. Crai;;ie. Mrs. Craigie was a woman of many eccentricities. Some' one once tried to persuade her to have her trees tarred to protect them from caterpillars, which also invaded her., neighbors" trees. She refused to beso cruel to the caterpillars. "They, are our fellow wtrnis," she said. Somewhat Surprised. "Why didn't your boy enter college?" "He couldn't pass the examination." "Do they have to pass an examina tion? I thought all n college boy need-1) ed was some funuy clothes." Pitts-i burg Post. His Motive. Pillows I never realized till three' years ago why Dobson was always preaching patience. Boulsters What made you realize it then? Pillows I lent him $10. New York Globe. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. Goethe. CONSULT Nicholson & Bro. ABOUT Office Filing Appliances and Card Systems, presenting the following well known lines: See our window, then consult us. Everything in office supplies. BERGER SHAW-WALKER WEISS YAWMAN & ERBSE MACEY GLOBE WERNICKE Nicholson & Bro. 727 MAIN ST. II

One lot of ladies' tan oxfords, mostly small sizes at 50 cents on the dollar.

white canvas blucher

We have just received a large shipment of lodies white canvas pumps that all go alt the sale price.

One lot of white canvas 2 strap pumps with growing girls heels, at $1.34. Same size with a higher heel $1.34

The Dairy Temple. The people called the Tod as. living in the Nilgtri hitls. India, bare a curious religious ritual evolved out of the ordinary operations of the dairy. The priest is the dairyman. ad the temple is the dairy. Only tbe milk of the sacred buffalo is coursed in the dairy temple. The milk of buffaloes tnat are not sacred" is churned In the front part of the huts in which the people live. The dairy temples are ot different degrees of sanctity, corresponding to the different degrees of sanctity of the buffaloes tended in each. Even the vessels used in a dairy temple vary in sanctity, those that contain tbe milk being more sacred than those that only receive tbe products of the churning.

Krone & Kennedy Be Cool Keep Cool Look Cool By wearing K. &. K. clothes you will find real pleasure during these hot summer sultry days. Buy one of our Negligee Shirts no stiff collar, bosom and cuffs to give you that uncomfortable feeling; you will find them here from $1.00 to $2.50. A Straw Hat will also help to make you forget this hot weather. We have the panama, sailor or soft straw; they sell from $1.00 to $6.00. Then an athletic suit of underwear is another summer wearabue to help you keep cool. Those who have worn them wilt wear no other. Price $1.00 to $3.00. Collars, Hosiery Neckwear Krone & Kennedy 803 Main St. oxfords sizes 2 1-2 1

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